Catalina is in a hyperbolic orbit, meaning that because it slightly exceeds the escape velocity of the Solar System, it is headed for interstellar space and will never be seen again.
And it's a virgin comet, pulled into the inner System from the Oort cloud for the first time. Because this could just as easily be the scenario for the next Earth-killer asteroid, we need to find a science-friendly location for that Thirty Meter Telescope, so that it can be built and possibly spot such an object in time for us to deflect it. Let's all pull for the Tibetan Plateau.
Yes, there's no sky like Arizona sky. But because this is an El Niño year, we are getting a lot more clouds and rain than usual; though the last two nights were perfect, the next week may be wiped out. So seek those clear skies wherever you may find them.
Catalina is very easy to find right now because in the predawn sky it's right next to the bright orange star Arcturus, which is the star that the handle of the Big Dipper points to. Night after night, it will move toward the Dipper and then up the handle.
I had a Meccano set, which was the Euro equivalent. I seldom built anything from the instruction book, but designed my own battleships with elaborate armament and had them annihilate each other. That, and playing Monopoly with my innumerable siblings, got me started on being a Repjblican at an early age.
Isn't referring to "spent nuclear fuel" (at least in the US) analogous to using a $100 bill to buy a soda at a gas station and then discarding the change as "spent"?
That's actually a pretty good analogy, except that you would be buying one of those $5 cans of hotel soda. Recycling rather than dumping would let us make use of the other $95.
"So how much of the "waste" is just spent fuel that can be reprocessed vs irradiated materials and other construction trash and whatnot?"
It would all be spent power-plant rods. There is already a designated burial site for trashed medical equipment, industrial gloves and other non-recycleable radioactive waste. And guess what - it's Area 4 of the same Nevada Test Site. Such waste decays by itself in a relatively short time.
Yucca Mountain was chosen not just because of its geological stability and 10cm annual rainfall, but because there is no town anywhere near it for as far as they eye can see, which from the top of a Nevada ridge is a long way. In fact, it is located inside the Nevada Test Site, constituting Area 25 of the most well-guarded spot in the nation.
I'm hoping that Trump has the imagination to not just open this fully completed storage facility, but to start building a recycling plant beside it so to convert our existing nuclear waste into fuel for the next generation of reactors. A storage facility for rods containing 95% of the remaining energy in the fuel should be a buffer, rather than a disposal facility.
Not many rainy days on Mars, so you can use solar for energy. Oxygen is for-sure available locally, and if sulfur and nitrogen are not, it still beats having to import hydrogen and carbon.
Think about it: First of all, the cheapest commodity to ship is information, and it moves at the speed of light, even with existing technology. Most importantly, the business model would be familiar to customers.
Given time for some cultural drift, Martians will develop funny accents (seen "The Expanse"?) that customers will have have to strain to understand. The time lag will be roughly what customers are already experiencing ("Please wait while I check to see if you are eligible for a refund..." and then a fifteen minute wait before advancing to the next line of the brush-off script.
Airlines and cable companies will pay trillions for the ability to mistreat customers from an unreachable distance, and will pay for the entire cost of the colony.
With Skype, this only applies if you call a landline or cell. If you make a Skype call to another Skype user, the connection is Internet only. Telephone company resources, other than Internet connections that it is already charging for, are not being used.
If climate alarmists are right, we will have to convert all of our fossil generation baseload to nuclear. Renewables will help, but we can't run our entire economy on fluctuating sources and there isn't enough new hydro potential available in developed countries.
First of all, ocean rise is a problem that, even if climate alarmists are right, is a matter of inches per century. Plenty of time to make seawalls higher.
Most importantly, if the climate alarmists are right, we will need a lot more nuclear.
The Nevada Test Site has to be on every true nerd's bucket list. See places like Frenchman's Flat, Yucca Mountain and Sedan Crater for yourself. See what railroad overpasses, houses, buildings, and a grid of Fifties cars, lined up as though at a drive-in (ask Gramps what one of those was) looks like when nuked. See an original Cold War test control room, with all the Doctor Strangelove gear.
Since we're talking about changing the reporting language of an entire discipline from human natural languages to a special-purpose database encoding, we have to assume that accountability (Whose variant is this?) and security will be part of the encoding, just as there are peer review controls to reduce the incidence of fake papers in natural language journals.
The other question, whether a database is open-source or not, is the same question we have for today's journals. Universities have to get used to according open-source journals that are well edited the same prestige they give the Shkreli-priced journals, and treat databases in the same way.
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Catalina is in a hyperbolic orbit, meaning that because it slightly exceeds the escape velocity of the Solar System, it is headed for interstellar space and will never be seen again.
And it's a virgin comet, pulled into the inner System from the Oort cloud for the first time. Because this could just as easily be the scenario for the next Earth-killer asteroid, we need to find a science-friendly location for that Thirty Meter Telescope, so that it can be built and possibly spot such an object in time for us to deflect it. Let's all pull for the Tibetan Plateau.
Yes, there's no sky like Arizona sky. But because this is an El Niño year, we are getting a lot more clouds and rain than usual; though the last two nights were perfect, the next week may be wiped out. So seek those clear skies wherever you may find them.
Catalina is very easy to find right now because in the predawn sky it's right next to the bright orange star Arcturus, which is the star that the handle of the Big Dipper points to. Night after night, it will move toward the Dipper and then up the handle.
-1, Green activist.
I had a Meccano set, which was the Euro equivalent. I seldom built anything from the instruction book, but designed my own battleships with elaborate armament and had them annihilate each other. That, and playing Monopoly with my innumerable siblings, got me started on being a Repjblican at an early age.
Isn't referring to "spent nuclear fuel" (at least in the US) analogous to using a $100 bill to buy a soda at a gas station and then discarding the change as "spent"?
That's actually a pretty good analogy, except that you would be buying one of those $5 cans of hotel soda. Recycling rather than dumping would let us make use of the other $95.
Because your basement is where you keep your cows.
"So how much of the "waste" is just spent fuel that can be reprocessed vs irradiated materials and other construction trash and whatnot?"
It would all be spent power-plant rods. There is already a designated burial site for trashed medical equipment, industrial gloves and other non-recycleable radioactive waste. And guess what - it's Area 4 of the same Nevada Test Site. Such waste decays by itself in a relatively short time.
"The place we learned the term NIMBY...."
Yucca Mountain was chosen not just because of its geological stability and 10cm annual rainfall, but because there is no town anywhere near it for as far as they eye can see, which from the top of a Nevada ridge is a long way. In fact, it is located inside the Nevada Test Site, constituting Area 25 of the most well-guarded spot in the nation.
I'm hoping that Trump has the imagination to not just open this fully completed storage facility, but to start building a recycling plant beside it so to convert our existing nuclear waste into fuel for the next generation of reactors. A storage facility for rods containing 95% of the remaining energy in the fuel should be a buffer, rather than a disposal facility.
"I think people like myself and others might be really curious why you do this on every post?"
His reasoning is that a mention of cows following every story might cause more people to lose interest in space programs.
"The Slashdot summary removed the "micro" symbol"
Rei doesn't get her thorn, last week I didn't get my A-macron, and now this rinkydink adaptation of Unicode fails at the Greek alphabet too.
Not many rainy days on Mars, so you can use solar for energy. Oxygen is for-sure available locally, and if sulfur and nitrogen are not, it still beats having to import hydrogen and carbon.
Think about it: First of all, the cheapest commodity to ship is information, and it moves at the speed of light, even with existing technology. Most importantly, the business model would be familiar to customers.
Given time for some cultural drift, Martians will develop funny accents (seen "The Expanse"?) that customers will have have to strain to understand. The time lag will be roughly what customers are already experiencing ("Please wait while I check to see if you are eligible for a refund..." and then a fifteen minute wait before advancing to the next line of the brush-off script.
Airlines and cable companies will pay trillions for the ability to mistreat customers from an unreachable distance, and will pay for the entire cost of the colony.
Hydrocarbons on Mars would be a huge find. With oil or coal to dismantle for hydrocarbons, we would have the consumables that life depends on.
Anecdote n: A data point that supports the other guy's hypothesis.
"If you killed all the Republicans, who would you steal from going forward?"
This would constitute work, so don't expect the Democrats to do it themselves. They would have Washington do it for them.
With Skype, this only applies if you call a landline or cell. If you make a Skype call to another Skype user, the connection is Internet only. Telephone company resources, other than Internet connections that it is already charging for, are not being used.
Are Brazilians allowed to use Skype for voice calls?
Telegram is the encrypted messaging app used by Daesh to do recruiting and plan missions.
If climate alarmists are right, we will have to convert all of our fossil generation baseload to nuclear. Renewables will help, but we can't run our entire economy on fluctuating sources and there isn't enough new hydro potential available in developed countries.
First of all, ocean rise is a problem that, even if climate alarmists are right, is a matter of inches per century. Plenty of time to make seawalls higher.
Most importantly, if the climate alarmists are right, we will need a lot more nuclear.
http://www.nv.doe.gov/outreach...
The Nevada Test Site has to be on every true nerd's bucket list. See places like Frenchman's Flat, Yucca Mountain and Sedan Crater for yourself. See what railroad overpasses, houses, buildings, and a grid of Fifties cars, lined up as though at a drive-in (ask Gramps what one of those was) looks like when nuked. See an original Cold War test control room, with all the Doctor Strangelove gear.
Because in your discipline, the database language is mathematics.
Since we're talking about changing the reporting language of an entire discipline from human natural languages to a special-purpose database encoding, we have to assume that accountability (Whose variant is this?) and security will be part of the encoding, just as there are peer review controls to reduce the incidence of fake papers in natural language journals.
The other question, whether a database is open-source or not, is the same question we have for today's journals. Universities have to get used to according open-source journals that are well edited the same prestige they give the Shkreli-priced journals, and treat databases in the same way.
Hillary may be a corporate tool, but I wouldn't exactly characterize her as a fascist.